tenuity
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The chief principle of the water-frame was the drawing out of the yarn to the required degree of tenuity by sets of gripping rollers revolving at different speeds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
In practice the average degree of tenuity to which the gold is reduced is not nearly so great as the last example quoted above.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
She should have kept her nerves to herself, rasped, as they were to a treacherous tenuity.
From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by May Sinclair
What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind?
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
